When using the in-IDE MCP browser to open Anna's Archive (annas-archive.org or annas-archive.se), navigation returned a connection error (chrome-error://chromewebdata/). The site may be blocked in the automation environment or require CAPTCHA. Use your own browser for search and download; this doc and the script below support the rest of the workflow.
Anna's Archive (also annas-archive.se, annas-archive.gl) is a search engine over shadow libraries (Library Genesis, Z-Library, etc.). It has CAPTCHAs on the website to limit bots. For programmatic bulk access they provide:
aa_derived_mirror_metadata for metadata.https://annas-archive.gl/dyn/torrents.json (may require or fail under load).So for manual use: search in your browser, download files, then use the script below to unzip, scan, and index.
Open
In your browser go to https://annas-archive.org (or .se / .gl if that works).
Search
Use the search bar. Try:
hollow earthhollow earth theoryMarshall Gardner, William Reed, Symmes, Raymond Bernard, Johannes Lang, Cyrus Teed, Frederick CulmerRefine
pdf or epub (avoid .rs if you want safer sources).Download
hollow_earth_downloads).Unzip
If you get .zip/.rar archives, unzip them into the same folder (or a subfolder). The script below can do this for you.
Scan and index
Run the script from this repo (see "Script: unzip, scan, index" below) on that folder to:
INDEX.md listing each file with title, author, year (if detected), path, and a short content preview.Use these as search terms or exact titles on Anna's Archive. Pre-1940 non-fiction theory books (not novels) are the priority.
| Author | Title | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| James McBride | Symmes's Theory of Concentric Spheres | 1826 | 168 pp |
| Thomas J. Matthews | A Lecture on Symmes' Theory of Concentric Spheres | 1824 | |
| Americus Symmes (comp.) | The Symmes theory of concentric spheres | 1878/1885 | From J.C. Symmes |
| William Reed | The Phantom of the Poles | 1906 | "Poles are phantoms" |
| Marshall B. Gardner | A Journey to the Earth's Interior; or, Have the Poles Really Been Discovered? | 1913, 1920 | 69 p then 456 p |
| Frederick Culmer | The Inner World | 1886 | 18 p, Salt Lake City |
| M. L. Sherman / Wm. F. Lyon | The Hollow Globe | 1871 | 447 pp |
| Cyrus Teed (Koresh) | The Cellular Cosmogony; or, The Earth a Concave Sphere | 1898, 1905 | Inverted earth |
| Johannes Lang | Die Hohlwelttheorie | 1938 | 281 p, German |
| Johannes Lang | Die welt eine hohlkugel! | 1936 | 32 p |
| Johannes Lang | Einführung in die Hohlwelttheorie | 1939 | 38 p |
| Karl Neupert | Welt-wendung! Inversion of the universe | 1924 | German |
| Karl Neupert | Die neue aera: das kosmozentrische welt-system | 1933 | |
| Jeremiah N. Reynolds | Remarks on a review of Symmes' theory | 1827 | |
| Alexander Mitchell | A treatise on natural philosophy, in vindication of Symmes's theory | 1826 | Eaton, Ohio |
Fiction / controlled-opposition context (optional):
Location: cosmos/cosmology/hollow_earth/scripts/index-downloaded-books.sh
What it does:
.zip in the given directory (or current dir) into a ./unzipped/ subfolder; skips if already extracted..pdf: extracts text with pdftotext (poppler-utils). For each .epub: unzips and concatenates .xhtml/.html text (epub is a zip). Writes .txt beside each file (or in a ./text/ folder).INDEX.md in the target directory with:
Requirements: unzip, pdftotext (install poppler-utils on Debian/Ubuntu). Optional: exiftool for PDF/EPUB metadata.
Usage:
cd /path/to/paradigm-threat-files
./cosmos/cosmology/hollow_earth/scripts/index-downloaded-books.sh /path/to/hollow_earth_downloads
If no path is given, it uses the current directory.
Output:
INDEX.md in the download folder./unzipped/, ./text/ (or per-file .txt) depending on script options